Kymberly is all about all things 60s swank and cool. A couple months back I watched the 60s spy spoof In Like Flint. It was republished and enjoying a bit of popularity since it was mentioned and endorsed by name by Mike Meyers in Austin Powers. Fox DVD has released both Our Man Flint and it's sequel In Like Flint on DVD with a great price of ten bucks a piece. At that point it is almost cheaper to just buy the DVD than bother renting it. She did not want to see the sequel until we saw the first movie.
Our Man Flint is an over the top sort of a spoof of a James Bond spy movie. It is not really "ha ha" comedy like Austin Powers and Hot Shots but rather a mixture of an actual movie with an over the top coolness that it is that it is mixture of parody and homage. Our Man Flint is a self aware spy movie that plays off and embraces the cliche of the genre. It is a bit like the campiness of the 60s TV show Batman but the characters never stop to make a joke or break out of the surreal realism of the movie. You chuckle and roll your eyes but you are not meant to break out and laugh. The humor is a bit sarcastic and sly.
If you ever get a chance to see this movie you might be tempted to think that it is a rip off of Austin Powers but in all fact this was made three decades before Austin Powers. Flint is an over the top swinger secret agent, who has a swinging bachelor pad filled with four hot girls, and secret agent toys. He is a master of actions, disguise, martial arts, science, culinary and love. The plot has swank bad girls, a plot to destroy the world with mad scientists, a secret lair and an army of henchmen. The sets and production value is actually pretty high this movie was actually quite popular when it came out in 1966. James Colburn is a formidable secret agent force and a damn sexy man after the quarter of a century since Flint first saved the world. Actually now that I think about it now Mike Meyer's homage to this movie in the first Austin Powers approaches plagiarism but he did say that he loved this movie in that movie. Strange.
James Coburn is possibly the only man to match and surpass the shear mackitude of William Shatner in the original Star Trek. This movie is a lot of fun as long as you do not take it seriously.
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